Holiday Snack Chicken Popcorn
| Prep Time | 15 min |
| Recipe servings | 2 |
| Cook Time | 30 mins |
| Total Time | 45 mins |
| Difficulty Level | Medium |
About Chicken Popcorn Recipie: Bite sized Chicken Popcorns are just perfect as appetizers for a dinner party. Full of spices, Chilles and fried to perfection. Chicken popcorn is the finger snack that you snack you can easily prepare at home for kids or for a party.
Ingredients of Chicken Popcorn
250 gms flour or all purpose flour
2 tbsp corn flour or all purpose flour
1 egg
1/4 tbs salt
3/4 tbsp ginger garlic paste
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/2 tsp onion powder
3/4 tsp red chilli powder or paprika or cayenne pepper
oil for deep frying
How to Make Chicken Popcorn
To a mixing bowl, add paprika or red chilli powder, pepper powder, ginger garlic or garlic powder, masala powder( or any seasoning) and salt.
Mix well and taste the mixture . Adjust the salt and spice as needed.
Cut chicken to tiny bite sized pieces. Make sure you cut them to uniform sizes as this helps to fry all of them uniformly.
Transfer the cut chicken to the seasoning and mix well.
Now add the flour and coat the chicken with the flour.
Pour the egg or butter milk and mix everything well. Chicken should be very moist at this stage
Next transfer the bread crumbs. Mix well You can also pick up each piece an droll in bread crumbs.
Heat oil on a medium flame.
When the oil is hot enough, Check by dropping a small piece of bread crumb It has to rise without browning a lot. 350 to 375 F is the right temperature if you are measuring.
Drop the pieces one after the other. Do not stir or disturb them for about a minute otherwise the bread crumbs may disperse in oil.
Deep fry evenly till golden. Keep stirring after a minute or two for even frying.
Drain popcorn Chicken on a kitchen tissue and serve hot with Ketchup, Sauce or any other Dip.
Nutrition Facts
Amount Per Serving
| Calories 380 | Calories from Fat 190 |
| Total Fat 21 g | % daily value |
| saturated fat 5gm | 32% |
| Trans Fat 4.5 g | 25% |
| Cholesterol 60mg | 20% |
| Sodium 1,200mg | 50% |
| Potassium 0mg | 0% |
| Total Carbohydrate 23g | 8% |
| Dietary Fiber 0g | 0% |
| Sugars 0g | - |
| Protein 24g | 48% |
| Vitamin A 2% | Vitamin C 0% |
| Calcium 4% | Iron 10% |